How to Be a Horror Icon: Samara Weaving on the Perfect Scream, Acting While Drenched in Blood and the Biggest Challenge Shooting Her New Horror-Comedy ‘Borderline’

Samara Weaving is a certified Scream Queen. Although she’s had impactful roles in dramas (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” the series “Nine Perfect Strangers”), comedies (“Bill & Ted Face the Music”), period pieces (“Chevalier”) and even starred in the Aussie soap opera “Home and Away,” she always returns to genre films. From early roles in “Mayhem” and “The Babysitter” to memorable recent turns in “Scream VI” and “Azrael,” Weaving is a frequent highlight of dark projects, able to match both comedic tones and deadly serious narratives.

Borderline,” in theaters Friday via Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing, finds Weaving in an irreverent mode. The film, written and directed by her

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